I happened to spot this photo on Rightmove earlier this week. It's a view from the window of an apartment in the Sandbanks retirement development on King's Gap and I like the view of not just the … [Read more...]

Here's a follow-up to the Hoylake Girls Hostel photo that I published earlier this month - many thanks to Paul Doleman for sending in the photo. Recognise anyone? I'll be publishing another … [Read more...]

It might only be early April but construction work on the viewing galleries at Royal Liverpool in advance of The Open is well underway. I took this photo this morning and as you can see, the … [Read more...]

Here's a photo of a building on the prom that's evidently had a previous life. You can read the background to this photo over on the Old Liverpool site. Any memories? … [Read more...]

*click for much larger version Many thanks to Tom Clarke for sending in this super old photo, taken from a glass negative, of locals watching the crew readying the lifeboat. The hills of north … [Read more...]

I stumbled upon this photo published on the photo sharing site flickr by Keith Jones. Keith comments on the photo: My nanna and grandad on a day trip out to Hoylake, not sure whether they rode there … [Read more...]

At long last ...photos of Finniland! Many thanks to Ian Bell who kindly sent in these rare photos of Finniland. What was Finniland? Well, erm, it was Hoylake's very own theme park I suppose. It … [Read more...]

I was browsing the Britain From Above website earlier and spotted a couple of new photos for Hoylake and Meols. The aerial photo above (source), was taken in June, 1946 and shows what is described … [Read more...]

Apologies for those of you who have already seen this photo on the Hoylake RNLI facebook page, but I had to share it with many of you who don't use facebook. Chris Williams, Hoylake RNLI crew … [Read more...]

In a recent email Carol Boardman mentioned the huge number of razor shells that are being washed-up on the beach at the moment. If you take a walk along the beach you'll see thousands of these … [Read more...]